MLK Edition of Black Knowledge Weekend Listening January 17, 2016

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The URL above leads to a Soundcloud playlist which contains the audio for Black Knowledge Weekend Listening The Martin Luther King Edition 2016.

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Art Colonialism And The Slave Trade Collide In The Congo
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The exhibit “Kongo: Power and Majesty.” The kingdom of Kongo encompassed a vast swath of Central Africa, and Kongo’s artists were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. The exhibit celebrates Kongo’s unique artistic tradition that blended European iconography with powerful indigenous art forms.
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How African American Women Shaped United States Cuisine
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Women of African descent have contributed to America’s food culture for centuries, but their rich and varied involvement is still overshadowed by the demeaning stereotype of an illiterate “Aunt Jemima” who cooked mostly by natural instinct. To discover the true role of black women in the creation of American, and especially southern, cuisine, Toni Tipton-Martin has spent years amassing one of the world’s largest private collections of cookbooks published by African American authors, looking for evidence of their impact on American food, families, and communities and for ways we might use that knowledge to inspire community wellness of every kind.
You can purchase the book on Amazon.com for $31.93: amzn.to/1P9okvM
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The Evolution Of Black Leaders And Black Leadership In The United States
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Historian Phyllis Leffler and activist and politician Julian Bond talk about the Civil Rights Movement and Black leadership in America. Julian Bond served from 1998 to 2010 as the chairman of the NAACP and was the co-director of the Explorations in Black Leadership project at UVA. He was also the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and served a combined twenty terms in both houses of the Georgia Legislature. Leffler collaborated with Bond for the Black Leaders on Leadership project, which uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America, and Leffler’s new book is Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond. Leffler’s book can be purchased on Amazon.com for $29.75: amzn.to/1P9oT8S
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How Racial Bias Kills 80K Black Patients
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In Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, Dayna Bowen Matthew reveals how over 80,000 black lives are lost each year due to health care disparities caused by unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. She’s a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Colorado School of Public Health, as well as co-founder of the Colorado Health Equity Project, which aims to remove barriers to good health for low-income clients. You can find Dayna Bowen’s book on Amazon for $27.00: amzn.to/1Zu4vyB .
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Understanding The Enduring Legacy Of Racism In The United States
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Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. discusses the murders of black youth by police, the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and race-based income inequality. His latest book is Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul . You can find the book on Amazon.com for $16.66 – amzn.to/1OXIdnA .
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Pagodas And Dragon Gates
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In 1906, a devastating earthquake and the resulting fires leveled much of San Francisco. Residents of Chinatown were largely unaided by their neighbors during and after the disaster. The fire department, for instance, focused available resources on the wealthy residents of nearby Nob Hill, dynamiting buildings in Chinatown in an (unsuccessful) attempt to stop the flames from spreading.

Before the dust had settled and smoke cleared, strategies were already being proposed to relocate Chinatown permanently to Hunter’s Point, making way for white-owned businesses to occupy prime real estate. The city’s mayor commissioned architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham to draw up plans aligned with the City Beautiful movement.
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